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Myocardial contrast echocardiography for the evaluation of coronary flow reserve

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Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 113))

Abstract

Coronary angiography is the current ‘gold standard’ in the evaluation of the severity of coronary disease; the parameter usually adopted is the percent diameter of the visualized stenosis. The limitation of this approach is that it does not take into consideration other geometric features of the stenosis (such as the length and absolute value of the area of the lumen vessel at the point of the stenosis). In any case even an objective measurement of each of these parameters would not make it possible to predict the actual reduction in perfusion.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, University of Bari, I-70124, Bari, Italy

    Sabino Iliceto  & Paolo Rizzon  & 

  2. Thorax Center, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

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Amico, A.F., Iliceto, S., Sublimi Saponetti, L., Memmola, C., Rizzon, P. (1991). Myocardial contrast echocardiography for the evaluation of coronary flow reserve. In: Iliceto, S., Rizzon, P., Roelandt, J.R.T.C. (eds) Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0611-2_31

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